Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
What do you do with pearls? You showcase them. You do not
hide them under your pillow, bed or a hidden case as a good luck charm. It is
when you showcase the pearl or pearls to the world that you get the true value
for the pearl or pearls and enjoy the divine blessing.
Please, do not be like the man in the Philippines who found the
current most expensive pearl in the world. It was only after his tiny home got
burnt down and the pearl was found that the actual value of what he found and
owned; a divine gift from God dawned on him. The man lived in penury for ten
years while he had great wealth on him or with him. Significantly, he did not even
labor for the wealth he was not aware of and which belonged to him. He found
the pearl in a large clam as he went fishing. But unfortunately had no inkling
of the value of the pearl of great worth except that it would make a great good
luck charm which explains why he kept it under his pillow as a good luck charm.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertanaas/2016/08/23/100-million-pearl-hidden-
Beloved, pearls are divine gifts from God to you to uplift
you in life. If the man who found that great pearl knew the worth of the pearl,
he would have traded it in for the money he had been working for all his life
as a fisherman. But he was unaware which unfortunately is the case with a large
number of people blessed with great divine gifts for actualizing purpose and
making money. While the divine gifts may be latent or active, the agonizing
truth is that a great number of people never actually get to know the value of
the gifts and so they spend their lives in penury lamenting their poverty when actually
great wealth resides in them. All they need is to come to an awareness of the
value of the great deposit of God in their lives so that they can be prosperous
and be forever free of poverty.
But awareness is not enough as a person laden with divine
gifts also has to showcase the gifts as the Biblical Joseph did. If Joseph had
not offered to interpret the dreams of the butler and the baker, he would not
have had the opportunity of standing before Pharaoh. This is because the butler
would not have known that Joseph could interpret dreams and therefore recommend
him to Pharaoh. The Biblical Daniel also went to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
to offer his services – he would tell the King his dream alongside the interpretation.
After successfully interpreting the dream and of course getting handsome
remuneration, Daniel became the official dream interpreter of not only the Babylonian
court but also that of the Persians and Medes when they dethroned the
Babylonians and took over the ruler ship of the empire.
